“The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.
‘We are looking for new creative and unconventional ways to pressure and punish Iran,’ an officer in US Central Command’s intelligence branch wrote in a message sent Wednesday to a broad group of military analysts, according to a source familiar with the message. A second source also said that a senior US military officer sent the message last week soliciting new ideas for how to deal with Iran.”
Over the past weeks I was, sometimes unconsciously, wondering whether Donald Trump and his administration of experts is hiding something. Is he really so clueless? What is the deeper meaning, a strategy, of signing such a vague Memorandum of Understanding which almost everybody considers a frank surrender? Iran won the war.
The above leak, which military officials said was unusual over email, seems to prove that there are no reasonable options available to Trump to force Iran into a deal on his terms.
Of course, there is always the nuclear option for any American president, God forbid.
The Iranians know that Trump has run out of ideas. They appear to have the upper hand in the endgame. They have a clear aim: Force Americans out of the Gulf region.
In April, after the botched attempt of a ground invasion south of Isfahan, Iran’s negotiation team enlisted a group of psychologists/psychiatrists for help in navigating President Donald Trump’s erratic behavior during the indirect negotiations aimed at ending the war. They assessed the U.S. president’s mental condition and assisted Iranian negotiators in crafting messages passed to Trump by regional mediators. Maybe Gulf monarchs such as MbS have done the same in the meantime.
Funny as that and the above request from CENTCOM may sound, fact seems to be that Trump’s narcissism prevents the U.S. to end this unwinnable forever war.
4 August 2026 @ 16:25 UTC+2.
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